Tube-head.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908 F. F. NICKEL. TUBE HEAD.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11. 1907.

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FRANZ NICKEL, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY R.WORTHINGTON,

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TUBE-HEAD.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ F. NIcKEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Orange, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Tube-Heads, fullydescribed and represented in the following specification and theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved tube headfor surface condensers, coolers, and the like, where two fluids are tobe separated, and it is desired to avoid leakage from one to the other.

The invention is especially intended for use in oil coolers, where theoil and cooling water are to be separated, or surface condensers Wheresalt condensing water and the boiler water condensed from the steam areto be separated, but is applicable also in many I similar uses.

The invention consists in a tube head made in two parts with spacebetween them, into which space any leakage through the packing in eitherhead passes, so as not to pass through both heads from one chamber tothe other.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Ihave shown the invention as applied to a common type of "condenser orcooler, and this construction will now be described in detail, and thefeatures forming the invention specifically I pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a vertical section of one end of thecondenser or cooler. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail of a portionof the tube head.

Referring to the drawings, A is the condenser shell inclosing the tubes,B the chamber with which the tubes connect, C the tubes, and D the tubehead in which the tubes are secured so as to open to chamber B.

The tube head D consists of two plates 10, 11, which areshown as heldapart by disks 12 on bolts 13 by which the parts A, B, D, are clampedtogether, but which plates 10, 11, may beheld separated in any othersuitable manner to form a space 14 between them. The tubes O passthrough the plates 10, 11, and are packed therein, suitable pack-Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 11, 1907.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Serial No. 378,361

the sleeve 2 and tube C will pass out to the space 14.

It will be understood that the condenser shown is selected only for thepurpose of illustration and is one type of many structures with whichthe invention is applicable, and that the invention is not to be limitedto the detailed form or arrangement of the tube head or packings shown,but that these may be modified widely while retaining the inventiondefined by the claims.

What I claim is 1. A tube head formed in two parts through which thetubes pass and in each of which parts the tubes are packed, the spacebetween said parts being open to the tubes for receiving leakage betweenthe tubes and tube passing through the chamber, and a head closing thechamber in which the tube is packed, said head consisting of two partsin each of which the tube is packed with a space between them open tothe tube for receiving leakage between the tube and the packing.

3. The combination with two chambers, of tubes passing through onechamber and opening to the other-chamber, and a tube head in which thetubes are packed, said tube head being formed of two plates with spacebetween them open to the tubes for receiving leakage between the packingand tubes.

4. The combination with tube C, of tube head D formed of two plates 10,11, with space between them, and packing for the tube in said heads withopenings 3 through the packing sleeve connecting with the space betweenthe plates.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence oftwo subscrib-

